Final Five..

What just happened?

How does this affect the next two TCs?

I HAVE NO IDEA. My jaw dropped. I started saying "oh my god... oh my god... oh my god..." and my friends watching me watch my screen thought that I just read that someone had died.... I. HAVE. NO. IDEA.

What do you hope will happen?

With this and Dan being moves spearheaded by Penny, and doubted/written off by you & Brian, is it possible you give her too little credit? Is she a threat to be crowned winner by strategy in the eyes of the jury?

I hope that Helios sticks together, so that the Day 01 alliance of me, Brian, and Penny makes it all the way to the end. I fear that Penny will turn on us to take me out, since she'd perceive me to be an FTC or IC threat. Thankfully, Joanna has volunteered to keep an ear out, and that she'd side with me for personal reasons if the division was drawn up.

I absolutely agree that Penny deserves more credit that I've given her. Her method has yielded results tonight and at the F10. If the jury decides that it makes her worthy of the win, then she deserves it, undoubtedly. My main arguments against her are having to do with her approach, her stubbornness, and her ignorance to reason, which has caused her plans to falter during some of the other rounds.

Fundamentally, though, while I will put up a fight in FTC, I'd also honestly share what both negative and positive contributions she has made to our alliance, but I owe her more credit and gratitude for the pre-FTC game. She's proven her loyalty and her dedication, and all I've done is bitched. Sometimes she's been right, and other times wrong. Many times, she's been stubborn and ignored reason, in both cases right and wrong, inexplicably enough. But if she'd have turned this round or last against Helios as a result of people exposing what I've said about my irritations with her, I'd have deserved it. I do apologize for it, and hope to do so more personally at the end. And while I think I have been unjust to her, I do still think that my arguments against her hold weight, but those arguments do not detract from the credit that she deserves from her own moves and initiatives that have succeeded.

Christy is the far bigger threat for FIC and FTC. However, keeping her around would better ensure that Penny stays loyal to Helios, since she'd want to take Christy out.

But, Joanna has mentioned that she doesn't talk to Penny, and favors me over her in that respect. So, for that reason, because I could offer Joanna a "if Penny approaches you, and you sell her out, you make F3 instead of her" card, as a slight glimmer of hope that she has a chance outside of final immunity, and that it would be in her best interests to join us to team up against Penny (only if Penny turns on us, because as long as she is loyal to me, I want to be loyal to her) instead of force a 2-2 tie where Joanna could still potentially go home.